The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sports Reporter

Bangladesh Cricket team will face India Cricket team today in their last league ODI match of the Tri-Nation Kitply Cup at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Bangladesh Television will telecast the match live from 2.45 PM from the big bowl. Bangladesh made a poor start as the Tigers lost to Pakistan by seventy runs in their opening match on June 8 at the same venue.

Later, Pakistan tasted a massive 140-run defeat by India on June 10 at the same venue.

Before today's match, Bangladesh faced India in 17 ODI matches. Of them, India won the 15 games while Bangladesh got victory in the two ODI matches.

Today's match is do-or-die encounter for Bangladesh. If Bangladesh want to play in the final, Bangladesh have to win in this match and if they earn a better run rate than Pakistan, then, Bangladesh will move into the final.

Skipper Mohammad Ashraful said, "If we can play better cricket than our opponent and our batsmen and bowlers show better performance we could win the match."

On the other hand, Garry Kirsten, the Coach of India said, "If we can play to our ability we can beat any team in the world".

When asked to comment about Bangladesh side, the South Africa said," We will look at their positions where we can dominate and earn a positive result for us."

The Cricket lovers of the country want to watch that the Tigers will fight to show good cricket against their stronger opponent.